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Re: Football: 2018 World Cup

I was watching Iceland v Argentina at the mall today and lots of people applauded Iceland's goal and Messi's failed PK! Looool. Nice one, Iceland, now you have a fair chance of going through to the last 16!

Re: Football: 2018 World Cup

Interesting performance from Germany there. Mexico could've easily put four or five past 'em if they hadn't wasted their chances so very gloriously (seriously, Chicharito, remember that you're a striker).

I doubt the former will repeat that kind of performance though. Löw will tinker a wee bit and figure out a formation that will win the remaining two group matches and then pick up enough momentum to march on till the semis (where they could meet Brazil iirc).

Re: Football: 2018 World Cup

Originally Posted by Neaeran

I think it's more noticable that players like Lahm and Schweinsteiger are missing.
The second half went a lot better. But yeah ... Mexiko deserved that win.

Schweinsteiger I could definitely feel was missing. At times Kroos was so far up the pitch that the German midfield was completely overrun (in his defense he had to seeing how Draxler, Müller and Werner created jackshit up front).

Re: Football: 2018 World Cup

Can someone explain to me why every match in this tournament had five minutes overtime, while Germany - Mexico just had three (despite Mexico playing the clock the whole time)? Not that Germany could've actually used these two minutes, because they played really bad. But why the difference?

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Re: Football: 2018 World Cup

Originally Posted by Wintermute

Can someone explain to me why every match in this tournament had five minutes overtime, while Germany - Mexico just had three (despite Mexico playing the clock the whole time)? Not that Germany could've actually used these two minutes, because they played really bad. But why the difference?

They weren't overtimes, they were stoppage times that are added at the end of each half. The game consists of two 45 minute halves. Since the game clock does not stop for fouls, the referees determine(to the nearest minute) how much time elapsed due to those fouls and adds it to the game clock after the 45th minute and 90th minute respectively if I'm not mistaken.